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Anne Sandman

@annesandman.bsky.social
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Astro, outdoors, food, general nerdery

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Very fun thread for those of us who are magpies for shiny little nuggets of pedantry
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11/10/2026
Elon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When Edward Teller was chair of the early AEC Reactor Safeguards Committee, he was considered extremely conservative in his safety demands. His reasoning was that even one catastrophic accident could destroy all public enthusiasm for a technology he believed was important.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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David Barker @nouspique.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The academy said Carson was surprised by the honour, who was in Iceland "listening to the wind" when they made contact with her.
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Canadian Anne Carson awarded Nobel Prize in Literature | CBC News
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded Thursday to Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson for her "bold and inventive oeuvre."
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
I’m glad more people are pointing this out. I talked about it it a few weeks ago w/ @janus.bsky.social Companies are attempting a sleight of hand where they capture data but argue because of how it’s processed it’s not “recording” and is thus private. They are still surveillance devices!
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We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’
Soon, asking “Does this device have a camera?” won’t be good enough.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026
I don’t think John “torture memos” Yoo should be allowed to opine on ethics on national television or really anywhere
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
As data breaches go, this is pretty sizable, significant, and also bafflingly bad in terms of time it took to discover and that the stolen data was unencrypted. News of this breach comes weeks after a huge theft of FBI agents' personal data. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260930...
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My main question here is not about Muse but about Apple's permissions framework. The author of the piece said the tester confirmed that Full Disk Access was off. So does that setting not mean what it says? Is there a known loophole? Did Muse find a vulnerability unknown to Apple?
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WTAF. No.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely not. ABSOLUTELY THE HELL NOT. WE ARE NOT DOING INTERNMENT CAMPS FOR CHILDREN.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 24/09/2026
I love this so much
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trying to imagine keeping my job after going on national television and professing that I was not smart or capable enough to do said job
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.
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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: New cat species just dropped! 🧪 What is a tilcayo, exactly? Well, it's a small wild cat in the genus Leopardus and a member of the tiger cat species complex, but it is NOT a tigrina, oncilla, kodkod, Geoffroy's cat... www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 17/09/2026
nope, nope, no, no and absolutely not
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What a lovely project: a PCT thru-hiker made hundreds of sound recordings along the trail and turned them into an interactive sound map. Story: www.bloomlinecollective.com/stories/tomk... And here's the actual map: www.thomasmkelly.com/pct-soundmap/
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What Does 2,650 Miles Sound Like? This Hiker Made a Sound Map of the Entire Pacific Crest Trail — Bloomline Collective
Through 200 recordings made during his Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike, Tom Kelly created an interactive sound map that offers a different way to experience the trail, allowing hikers to revisit places ...
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There are so many things about this administration that are deeply, deeply bad, but "willfully opening the throttle to race ever faster toward rendering the planet uninhabitable" is among the worst www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think a lot of things go wrong when we mistake programming metaphors for how the computer works. You might have object-oriented programming but it is only one computer; it's just a way of keeping track of how the program works. Similarly, we'd think about AI differently if rather than "agents"...
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When I was in elementary school, I was a head taller than the other girls my age. No one tried to stop me from playing soccer or basketball. Just let kids play sports ffs
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.
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Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare
Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 10/09/2026
“Losing NCAR would set back scientific research, with real consequences for people’s lives and livelihoods. As a taxpayer-funded public good, NCAR belongs to all of us, and we deserve to know the rationale and deliberations behind any effort to dismantle or restructure it.”—Carlos Martinez, PhD.
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National Science Foundation and White House Sued for Refusing to Release Government Records
UCS, represented by Earthjustice, and Environmental Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the National Science Foundation and the White House for withholding information about plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's a little on the nose that my neighbors' cat showed up for cuddles *while I was reading this piece*
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Please do not under any circumstances use a chat bot to plan a mountaineering trip, even on a non-technical route
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Promoting genocide is a bright line. Here is the email I sent to support@1password.com and business@1password.com condemning their donation. I encourage you all to do the same. Full text is in the alt text, to make it easy to copy/paste and adapt to your own message.
To Agile Bits Leadership,
I am a longtime 1Password user. But beyond that, I am an information security professional. In that capacity, I am responsible for convincing literally countless companies to adopt Business and Enterprise plans for their companies and helping them onboard. I haven't bothered to add up exactly how much recurring 1Password revenue I am personally responsible for, but needless to say, it's a lot.
In addition, I am also a desktop Linux user and have used Linux as my primary OS for nearly twenty years. 
I am shocked to see that 1Password has become the first independent corporate sponsor of Omarchy, a Linux distribution created by a man who openly supports genocide of ethnic minorities: David Heinemeier Hansson.
I am also appalled to see that 1Password has responded to other people who share my concern by trying to draw a meaningless distinction between the Omacom Foundation and David Heinemeier Hansson. There is no way to support Omacom without tacitly condoning the reprehensible behavior of its founder. The statement "1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views" is completely at odds with the fact that 1Password has pledged $300,000 to a foundation controlled by a man who openly calls for repeating a genocide previously enacted by Adolf Hitler himself. 
I am mortified that I am responsible for driving revenue to Agile Bits only for the company to turn around and spend that money in such an odious way. If Agile Bits is truly committed to its stated values of "not endorsing hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, the company must rescind its deal with the Omacom Foundation, refuse to pay the remaining $200,000, and claw back the $100,000 already paid.
Unless Agile Bits reverses course on this funding, I will not in good conscience be able to continue recommending 1Password professionally, or to use it personally. 
Genocide is a bright line, and it is imperative that we all stand on the correct side of that line.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
i have used 1password probably since their first version and now i have to move everything including my passkeys what a mess
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Here's a cedar waxwing for today's #BirdOfTheDay, hitting both the primary #BirdsUpClose (any bird at close range) and alt #BirdNameC (any bird name that starts with C). This individual and three or four comrades completely stripped that bush of berries in a matter of minutes.
A cedar waxwing strikes a defiant pose in a bush, surrounded by muted green leaves and red berries. He or she is a beautiful punk of a bird with soft-looking brown feathers (darker above and lighter on the head and breast), a swept-back crest, a dramatic black mask, red tips on the secondary wing feathers, and yellow tips on the tail feathers.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
SCOOP: Trump officials are pressuring the National Park Service to find a way to give a small piece of Yosemite to a private developer. The land would be used for a road, to give the developer rare private access to the heart of the park.
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People"
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just abuser tactics all the way down: "if I can't have it, no one can"
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Physicist: If we assume a spherical cup...
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Genuinely fascinating to me that Hegseth, a follower of Doug "women are the kind of people that people come out of" Wilson and someone who's been doggedly purging senior military leadership of women, wants or at least acquiesces to this kind of intense involvement from his wife at DoD
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Pᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Fair play to Danny León, the Spanish Olympic skateboarder. This shot may never be eclipsed.
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.
A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Just spitballing here but maybe we shouldn't platform men who are obsessed with women to the point of violence
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Anne Sandman @annesandman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Incredibly cool new result from the Inouye telescope: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability observed in the Sun's photosphere (surface)! Very promising as a possible driver for the buildup of tension that leads to solar eruptions like flares and coronal mass ejections 💥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqdq...
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NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope: Kevlin-Helmholtz on Solar Surface (Full View)
YouTube video by National Solar Observatory
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